A Positive Approach to Developing Links on ForumsBuilding forum links is not about raising your PageRank (always a misguided goal). It's about building good will, awareness, and having your link building efforts go viral. This is how to go about it.

Artificial Link Popularity"...having a very hard time figuring out just exactly what "Artificial Link Popularity" is. I mean you either have link pop or you don't. Sites link to you or they don't, nothing artificial about that."

Automated Link Exchange Backlash"Developing backlinks is a cornerstone of most web endeavors. No links, no loving. There are many solutions, including paying for links, outsourcing development, and automated link hunting solutions."

Buy Dropped Domains for the Link Pop and Backlinks"A few years ago I developed the strategy of buying dropped domains with good backlinks and pagerank, and either 301-ed them to one of my main sites, or host them with a bit of content, and link them to my sites. Now, years later, some of those still bring in nice traffic and PR."

Defining A Relevant Link With The View To Give Best Value"Let say you have a hotel booking site that specializes in hotels in the Toronto area. Assume that you are trying to rank for Toronto Hotels. Does that mean that you would be better off only exchanging links with hotel sites whose websites had 'Toronto Hotels' as their main keyword density?"

May 26, 2010

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Directories to Submit toDirectories are the usual first stop in a link development campaign. Here's a handy run down of directories that can be submitted to.

Do Reciprocal Links Stil Hold any Value"I was recently advised by a company doing my SEO that Google and the other big search engines no longer see value in reciprocal linking and that all link building should be one way..."

Google Clarifies Link Exchange GuidelineGoogle has now added the word "excessive" to their webmaster guidelines on what makes a problematic linking scheme: "Excessive reciprocal links or excessive link exchanging."

Aug 15, 2007

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Google Discounting Reciprocal Link Exchanges?"This is the most upfront statement from Google about their efforts to counter reciprocal link exchanges. The importance of this blog post to those who consider reciprocal linking as a viable strategy cannot be understated."

How To Get Links For New SitesI am not one for buying links other than the odd link here and there. I get several thousand daily uniques to my biggest sites without hardly ever engaging in link buying.[br][br]But what if you are just starting out in a niche where there are big competitors who have have thousands of links pointing to them, often obtained in the days when they were so easy to come by when people linked freely without giving it a second thought. These days people tend to link mostly to sites that are extremely reputable and large in size and well known on the web. What then? How is one ever to catch up with big competitors if they can't get links?